The Spanish indictment names military officers as having been present at the High Command meeting that approved the Jesuit murders, as well as more suspects who either witnessed the giving of the order or the executions.
These three presidents have stories that are interwoven. Much like the threads of an olive green military dress uniform, pulling too hard, now, at any one loose string, could start unraveling the fabric to bare what lies beneath.
The first time the U.S. tried to extradite a Guatemalan military officer for drug trafficking, it took the assassination of the nation’s chief justice, in 1994, to stop it. No officers and few civilians have been extradited since.
Journalist security is really a way of thinking, a way of approaching your work. And fostering professional solidarity is crucial to that approach.
“With names like the “Brotherhood” (Cofradía) and the “Operators,” the intelligence cliques “developed their own vertical leader-subordinate network of recognition, relationships, and loyalties.”
The Colombian journalist, Hollman Morris, had his request for a U.S. visa to study at Harvard as a prestigious Nieman Fellow denied on grounds relating to alleged terrorist activities as defined by the U.S. Patriot Act.
The bloodshed woven through the fabric of Guatemalan society remains a rarely told story. One reason for the ongoing lack of attention is the impunity that has continues to plague the nation.
